Gagan Deep Singh Email & Phone Number

Gurugram, Hr, In

Gurugram, Haryana, India

- Leading South Asia Finance for Cargill Foods (3 Product lines - Edible oils, Starches/ Sweeteners/ Textutizers, Cocoa/ Chocolate; B2B & B2C GTMs)- Responsible for providing strategic and financial leadership to establish and execute against the global vision/strategy- Driving insight into profitability, value creation & growth opportunity; leading high performing teams

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Responsible for Supply Services finance covering Inventory, space, freight, business planning and customer service strategy for India, Bangladesh and SriLanka

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

# Management of Trade spends and Sales fixed costs# Overall Channels and Regions Profitability Management & Go To Market Strategy# Business Partner for General trade, Government supplies, and Institutional business# Lead automation and simplification initiatives

South India

Mumbai Area, India

 Associate Director - Finance Business Partner - Acute Cluster (Category Finance) -All India finance lead for the therapies’ cluster (Rs 1450+ crs), having direct P&L delivery responsibility To provide strategic inputs & decision analysis support in daily affairs and partner in business projects  Areas include P&L forecasting, GC Mix Mgmt., Expiry control, budgetary controls (Ring fencing) etc

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Led Project management role for GST launch for entire Cipla as part of 3 members team

Mumbai Area, India

 Areas include Credit control, accounting & payments, sales taxes, depot control, FP&A & claims mgmt. Credit monitoring & control including credit limit approvals, action on overdue payments etc. Payments for marketing spends & depot operations - accounting, payments & compliance (Taxation) Distribution budget preparation, review of operational efficiency, inventory and fixed assets controls Ensure 100% IFC/SOP/DOA compliance across all depots/marketing initiatives/capex/taxation filings Key projects across GST, payment automation, cost control, depth of analysis and compliance

Mumbai Area, India

1. Business Planning and Analysis - * Budgeting and Forecasting, Long Term Strategic Planning, * BU-ROIC Analysis, Gross margin tree, Business Partnering * Consolidated management financials * Leadership Reviews - Quarterly Board decks of Global CFO, Sales flash, Black books, Chairman’s decks * Bench-marking & Risk Evaluation -Competition, risk simulation on @Risk, Qlikview * Investor Relations and Analysis - FAQs preparations, Bridges2. Therapy Business Finance - * Handling the financials (topline & bottomline)- The biggest and growing therapy of Cipla * Case analysis for all future expansion plans - NPV of launches, Capex, M&A update3. Others Key Projects - * Complexity Reduction, SAP Simplification for management reporting * Projects on Manufacturing decisions, Pricing, Costing * Distress Plant Sale: Singlehandedly covered 2 plants valuation assignments including assets physical identification & business valuation * Balanced Scorecard - Finance Transformation: Aligned Global CFOs scorecard to all the functional CFO’s KPIs; benchmarked it to industry’s best practices * Cost to Serve - Redesigned costing by identifying key drivers; for all 29 units; recommended >₹50 cr saving thru SKU rationalization *Fuel for Growth: Core team member to drive FFG with AT Kearney in the areas of cost to serve, batch size optimization & taxation * Manufacturing Optimization: Financial evaluation for consolidating underutilized facilities, leading to extra capacity to address future bottleneck

Singapore

# Worked for Fx Structuring Asia Desk to structure investment products# Familiarized with the working and various functions of DB Singapore office during one week trip# Identified themes for 2nd half of the year based on discussions with sales, trading & research teams # Customized trade ideas on themes for Korea retail, Malaysia retail & Private wealth management clients# Devised a momentum based hedging strategy on USDINR for Indian exporter having USD receivables # Actively contributed to live pricing of sales requests and pitched ideas basis same on real time basis # Differentiated DB in Back to Back Asia business by pitching ideas showing in-depth analysis to client -Analyzed Sensitivities of key structures’ parameters (TPF & Pivot) & Developed tool for CNH report# Winner, "Making Markets Simulation", a trading strategy game out of 8 teams from top Indian MBA schools# Appreciated for proactively working on multiple themes and educating clients through sensitivity analysis

New Delhi Area, India

# Part time weekend teaching assignments of subjects such as Derivatives and Portfolio Management for 3 months (2012)# Conducted classes for students appearing for CFA level 1, 2 & 3; having batch strength upto 40 students

New Delhi Area, India

# Worked with Global Procurement Head and category buyers in procurement of raw & packaging materials# Tracked global commodities & financial markets and prepared monthly commodity outlook reports# Planned annual material price budget and forecasted monthly material price estimates# Analyzed procurement activities in terms of timing, pricing, sourcing and risk hedging decisions # Controlled budget through price variance reports, inventory reports & mark to market analysis using SAP# Coordinated procurement analysis of Treasury & International business divisions (Dubai, Egypt & Nepal)# Sole representative from procurement division in Innovation cell (Cross Functional team)# Successfully coordinated the task “Procure to pay” (Internal Audit of procurement division with PWC)# Structured the Budgeting process to maintain consistency among India and International divisions’ prices# Undertook cost savings, supplier performance evaluation and E Sourcing (Ariba) initiatives# Member - Team Innovation - Responsible for cost benefit analysis, timing & sourcing of new product development

Gurgaon, India

# Traded Crude Oil Futures (WTI & Brent), their calendar and inter-commodities Spreads# Developed strategies for intraday and long term trading in ICE & NYMEX exchanges # Analyzed markets using customized parameters of technical indicators: Bollinger Bands, MACD, RSI # Linked fundamental & macroeconomic data from major economies with technical key levels# Gained proficiency in analyzing markets using databases such as Bloomberg & Reuters Terminals# Amongst top 3 traders from the first batch of 10, to successfully trade crude oil futures # Consistent trader in volume & profits during volatile market of 2008-10 (Profits in 5 out of 7 Quarters)# Increased in limits by 200% in less than 1.5 years (10 lots in Futures & 250 lots in spreads, 1 lot~$1lac)

New Delhi Area, India

# Responsible for financial budgeting, monthly reporting on MIS for strategic planning and decision support# Conceptualized quarterly financial planning & streamlined zero based budgeting processes

New Delhi Area, India

Underwent training for the application of technical & fundamental analysis

New Delhi Area, India

Analyzed & suggested improvements on channel development project

Pgdm, Management - Finance, Cgpa: 8.61/10 (Rank 5)

Activities and Societies: Core Committee Member, Team Ignicion (Committee) - 1) Handled the pre-selection mentorship process for 3000+.

International Student Exchange Program, Mba, A Or A+ In Key Subjects

Activities and Societies: Brand Management# Studied fifth term of MBA from one of the elite French business school as a part of student.

Bbs - Bachelor Of Business Studies, Management (Finance)

Activities and Societies: # Founding Member of "Da Stock Adda", first financial market club of the college - Undertook sessions.

Xii - Cbse, Commerce, 1St

# Awarded 2 Indira Awards from Delhi Government for excellent performance in 12th Board examination # Awarded Merit certificates from CBSE.

X - Cbse, 1St

# Consistently ranked among Top 3 # Awarded Merit certificates from CBSE for being in the Top 0.1% (Mathematics - X) # Awarded Indira.